Carved to resemble a modern airplane yet covered in intricate hieroglyphs, this artifact defies all conventional timelines. Found in a museum-like setting among other ancient Egyptian relics, it raises a provocative question: how could a civilization from over 3,000 years ago depict something so technologically advanced?

Carved to resemble a modern airplane yet covered in intricate hieroglyphs, this artifact defies all conventional timelines. Found in a museum-like setting among other ancient Egyptian relics, it raises a provocative question: how could a civilization from over 3,000 years ago depict something so technologically advanced?
Mainstream archaeology considers this a modern fabrication or artistic reinterpretation. However, its uncanny detail—complete with cockpit-like features, wings, and stabilizers—has drawn comparisons to the controversial Saqqara Bird, a wooden artifact some claim resembles a glider. But unlike the Saqqara Bird, this object bears unmistakable design traits of a 20th-century aircraft, merged bizarrely with pharaonic symbolism.
Could this be a representation of flight mythology lost to time? Or, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, a preserved memory of flying machines witnessed by early civilizations?
The inscriptions—genuine-looking hieroglyphs—amplify the mystery. Were they ceremonial, symbolic, or something more technical? The fusion of modern form with ancient script challenges the linear narrative of human progress.
Perhaps it’s just an elaborate hoax or a thought-provoking art piece. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s a clue that history is far stranger than we dare to believe.

Ancient Flyer – The Mystery of Ancient Aircraft

I often find myself wondering about my eyesight and the quality of my perception. I mean, how much of what I see is actually ‘real’ versus an illusion. Technically we have blind spots in our vision where our optic nerve joins the back of our eye, yet our brains interpret and fill that space so we don’t actually have a blind spot in our vision. We monkeys are easily tricked by even the simplest of illusions.

Yet there is one visual mystery  I just can’t believe is a trick. The ancient flyer.

The Ancient Flyer is a sculpture and carving that has been found all over the world. Said to be  thousands of years old and yet, upon looking at it, appears to be an aircraft. No, really!

This post has been on my list for some time, but it wasn’t until my son poked my necklace  and said ‘plane,’ that I remembered. That reaction, the ‘point and plane’ is exactly why I  wanted to write this post in the first place.

The ancient flyer (the image in the тιтle pH๏τo) was first found in Colombia and is believed to have been from the Quimbayan civilisation 300-1550CE. The reason it caused so much controversy is because it was originally thought to be an insect – much like the other golden sculptures from that era. However, no insect has its wings attached to the bottom of its body, nor do they have upright tail fins or stabilisers as the sculpture does. Weird, right?!

Here’s a three minute video giving you some more info from experts including a snippet where some German engineers made a large scale replica in 1994 and flew it…

 

PH๏τo taken from Wiki
PH๏τo taken from Wiki from temple in Abydos

The ancient flyer isn’t the only example of mysterious aircraft. There are plenty of other examples of ancient aircraft no one can explain. Like the Petroglyphs first found in Egypt in 1848, before we (or the Wright brothers) had even invented flight! The Petroglyphs became popular in the 90’s after a bunch of pH๏τos of Seti’s tomb were taken and posted on the net.

I’m not being funny, but even my two year old can see that there’s a helicopter, two ships and on another petroglyph a speed boat. But of course, there’s a totally scientific, evidence based reason that these aren’t in fact exactly what they seem…

Supposedly these carvings were used over more than one farohs reign, so the first ones were carved over again. Chuck in a splash of erosion (in a perfectly sealed tomb in which everything else was immaculately preserve) and you get these ‘double-carved-eroded’ images. God I feel sarcastic today… my eyeballs are already aching from rolling. Anyway for the sake of a well rounded argument, the skeptics came up with a name for this erosion bollocks, it’s called ‘palimpsests’

I’d have bought the erosion story if the above carvings were one offs. It’s almost believable that a freak occurrence causing the perfect erosion and re carving conditions would have bought about an illusion of a helicopter. But they weren’t the only case. Not even close. These petroglyphs have been found in various other locations including a temple in Karnak HUNDREDS of miles away.

PH๏τo taken from Crystalinks
PH๏τo taken from Crystalinks

There are also countless paintings of spaceships throughout history. I’d be here all day if I showed you all of them. But this post, by Crystalinks has a huge selection of examples, including several paintings that depict space craft linked to religious things in our past.

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